Thumbs Up Australia: Hitching the Outback

By Tom Parry

On the Road meets Down Under in this really rough guide to the adventures of an enthusiastic hitchhiker and his reluctant girlfriend on their quest for the real Australia. Hitching lifts with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185788390X
• ISBN13: 9781857883909
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Thumbs up Tom Parry

I was recommended this book by a friend. I must say I was a bit apprehensive as I am not normally into Travelogs, but I must say I really enjoyed it. My only criticism, is that it could have done with some photos of the places that were visited, but other than that... a great read. Australia is certainly more wacky than I realised.

A new view on Australa

I very much enjoyed this novel and found it to be a real page-turner in that it was a tale of endeavour and continually emergent experiences. This novel touched on an area most Australian's seem to be little aware of and seem themselves to experience almost as a foreign country most notably the centre and north of this massive country/continent. Indeed an area that most of us won't experience whilst traversing the urban parts so well advertised by the brochures. As such I found it a fascinating contrast from that given by the rather conservative and urbanised travelogues I'd read on this country by Bill Bryson's `Down Under' although in itself an interesting travelogue. Bill Bryson's travelogue was the last book I bought for my brother when he left for Australia three years ago, this will be my next one.